Has it made them safer?
I originally fond this on the Washington Post but it requires one to pay to read so I went elsewhere.
Industries always spring up to meet what is seen as needs of society. Sadly, this one comes from senseless tragedies – the deaths of innocent school children at the hands of fruitcakes.
The expo had finally begun, and now hundreds of school administrators streamed into a sprawling, chandeliered ballroom where entrepreneurs awaited, each eager to explain why their product, above all others, was the one worth buying.
Waiters in white button-downs poured glasses of chardonnay and served meatballs wrapped with bacon. In one corner, guests posed with colorful boas and silly hats at a photo booth as a band played Jimmy Buffett covers to the rhythm of a steel drum. For a moment, the festive summer scene, in a hotel 10 miles from Walt Disney World, masked what had brought them all there.
This was the thriving business of campus safety, an industry fueled by an overwhelmingly American form of violence: school shootings.
All for lots of money. The question is, how many school districts – and their tax-paying supporters- are willing to come up with the $$$$ to increase school security?
More of this @ Billions are now spent to protect kids from school shootings. Has it made them safer?
